A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the dis

A multitude of causes, unknown to former times, are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

Author: William Wordsworth

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